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MaestroDev, Winston Damarillo's Latest Firm, Uncloaks At JavaOne

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Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. I decided to move down here for the weather, plus my wife is an actress.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. million for each year he worked at the start-up.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. million for each year he worked at the start-up.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Certainly, the use of common components will speed software development, as people realize it's not necessary to reinvent the wheel.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Rumored to be appox.